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12 Rules for Gambling You Should Follow
ordan Peterson, a famed psychologist, has a book titled 12 Rules for Life. I haven’t read it all the way through, but I do love the simplicity of its title and concept. Quite frankly, I don’t have 12 rules for life to share.
But I am confident that I know enough about gambling to give some advice. The life of a gambler has a few rules that I can offer from my own personal experience and past knowledge.
So, here are my 12 rules for gambling. (And yes, some of them were maybe inspired by Peterson’s book.)
Meanwhile, they’re pouring money into the lottery on a weekly basis. Or worse, they’re sitting in front of slot machines gambling away their paychecks while complaining that they’re unable to save any money.
Don’t be that guy! Follow your own best gambling for joker advice, and practice what you preach.
If you want to fly with the eagles, you can’t spend all day hanging around with turkeys.
How you define success as a gambler is up to you, but let’s say that you define success as winning money consistently over the long run. Hanging out with gamblers who play slot machines all day isn’t going to help you succeed.
Meanwhile, the good sports bettors are also beating the book consistently. Again, we’re talking about the top 5% here. These are the people you want to hang out with and learn from.
If you want to hang out with my buddy “Brian,” who loves nothing better than to play Q3 suited out of position, you won’t see the kind of success in gambling that you want.
Also, Brian’s the kind of guy who always bets on the Cowboys because he’s a “superfan.” All successful gamblers know to never bet on teams you are emotionally affected by. So, it’s okay not to spend a lot of time learning gambling tips from Brian, unless you want to pick up his bad habits.
Tony Robbins is a self-help guru or life coach who preaches something called “CANI.” That’s an acronym for constant and never-ending improvement.
It’s a great approach to life, and it’s a great approach to gambling. In AA, they talk a lot about progress, not perfection. The idea is that you want to become better at gambling than you were yesterday.
Spending a lot of time comparing yourself with others and competing with the biggest pros in the world probably isn’t helpful. In fact, it would be discouraging to compare yourself to Doyle Brunson all the time.
But let’s say that you switch from slot machines to real money video poker. That’s a big change in your gambling habits, and you should take some pride in that.
Now, get away from the video poker machines and learn how to count cards in blackjack or win at poker!
You can be one of those obnoxious guys at the blackjack table who has an opinion about how everyone else played the last hand… But guess what? No one likes that guy.
Why would you want to go through life being disliked?
On top of that, if you’re spending your time focused on how other people are doing it, your focus isn’t where it needs to be. You need to concentrate on how YOU’RE doing it.
